Fox Sports president to discuss Myers’ `Katrina’ remark

Fox Sports president Ed Goren said there will be “internal discussions” with Chris Myers over remarks the network host made about Hurricane Katrina victims, according to Media Matters for America.

Myers, fill-in host on Dan Patrick’s Fox Sports Radio show about the flooding in Nashville, said, “It’s a great country here. We have disasters issues when people pull together and help themselves, and I thought the people in Tennessee, unlike — I’m not going to name names — when a natural disaster hits people weren’t standing on a rooftop trying to blame the government, OK. They helped each other out through this.”

Reached by Media Matters for America, Goren said, “There will be internal discussions even though it didn’t occur on our network. … I don’t think it’s appropriate for any sportscaster to be discussing politics, religion, etc. And that point is made in every one of our seminars from NASCAR to football.”

Myers, in his conversation with Patrick, went on to say, “And Mike Helton, president of NASCAR, Tony Stewart, among some drivers went from the race over to the middle Tennesee area, where still a lot of hardworking, tax-paying, legal American citizens have been affected by the floods and are trying to rebuild their lives and they are helping out. And I think that other people around the country, of course, the music industry in and around Nashville helping, without making a big deal out of it and I think that’s a good thing.”

James,
Yeah “God Forbid” we ever speak the “Truth” about matters in America, specially when it comes to blacks as we do not want to hurt their feelings or “expose them” for what they really are doing. Truth is about Katrina is they were warned to get the hell out and were too damned foolish or lazy(you decide) to leave and then abused every damned penny the Government gave them. There! Chris Myers could not say it, BUT I DID-:)

This is not the first time I’ve heard such comments about New Orleans during Katrina. What those commentators fail to realize is that those people had no means of getting out of town–no cars, no middle class amenities that most of us take for granted. 15,000 people died in the Katrina flooding-that’s Biblical proportions. Myers has shown his ignorance and will be tainted forever by his moronic view of the world.

Rich,
I live in the “Deep South” and we had many of the so-called “Katrina Victims” here and the only ones who were true victims were the ones that had do deal with the *astards. You do not know 1st hand what you are talking about, only what the “Lamestream Media” has told you. Living in Hotels on the governments dime, buying drugs with the money they were given. Funny there was no rioting in Mississippi when they had the floods and all the damage just as bad as “Katrina” and their “so-called Victims”.

What is this a forum for Fox News?
Chris Myers used codespeak poorly.
Politics has no place in sports.
The Suns management was wrong for the statement they made by wearing the uniforms.
Sports is the last meritocracy in business.
The best candidates thrive in sports.
Your upbringing has nothing to do with being able to perform under pressure.
Your connections do not work on the playing field.
Let’s leave politics to the cable news pundits.

U2
Not sure if the Tea Party Express is heading to Albany, but I would advise you that PRESIDENT Obama’s aunt is not a threat to national security.
Stephen A. Smith and Jason Whitlock are fine writers but are not going to lob verbal grenades for the sake of controversy.
Unfortunately, black sportswriters are not meeting your needs as a reader.
Can not be all things to all people.

“You do not know 1st hand what you are talking about, only what the “Lamestream Media” has told you.”

Hey Danio,

I do indeed know what I am talking about because I am involved in Pet Rescue. But why am I trying to justify myself to you?

If I lived with pets in New Orleans I would not have left them. But if I lived with you I would have left you with 3 days of food and water. But don’t worry, I would have left the radio on so you could listen to Beck and Limbaugh as the waters rose to drown you.

A) I’m not Tea Party, and think Palin and her speech fee daughter are jokes. I’m a registered DEM who voted for Hillary in the NY primary.
B) Obama’s aunt, I agree, is no threat to national security, HOWEVER, she’s in the Country ILLEGALLY, AND living in public housing in Boston.
C) Jason Whitlock is a great reporter. I only used him as an example to prove a point about PC media. Steven A. Smith is a blowhard. Akin to Chris Berman (white,fat, probably loves Glenn Beck), so save the race card on that……..

My only suggestion Roundball1 would be this………Watch the TODAY show one morning and see what PC MEDIA feeds you as news,,,,,,,,,,,,and then read your local newspaper in the “National” section,,,,,,,,,,and see what TODAY doesn’t touch.

I grew up in Schenectady Country & have been living in New Orleans for the last 25 years. I was here for the hurricane and can tell from first hand experience that people DID help one another! Other than the US Coast Guard, it took the state & federal govt nearly a week to do much of anything. What can one do to help your own community once you’ve depleted the water, fuel & food you’ve stockpiled?

As to those who ask why many of us stayed:
1. Many thousand of us are have family who are 1st responders. I am not about to leave my wife while she is required to work the “hurricane tean” at her hospital.
2. Anytime an evacuation order is given, local officials must consider how many elderly people & critical patients will die in transport out of the city.
3. As woth any urban area, there are many working class families who depend entirely on public transport to get about. The flooded buses were a sad image, but what bus driver would put him or herself @ risk to make an extra few hundred buck overtime?

Rich,
I am an excellent swimmer. You might want to try another way of getting rid of me(smile). I am also self sufficient so there would be no need for me to ever live with you or any other person. If the Government warns me to get the hell out? Guess what? I AM LEAVING. Walking, running, car, bus, train or whatever it takes I am out of there-:)

Simple question. If Myers only complemented the efforts in Tennessee and left out the Katrina crap, would any of us care of be talking about this? NO. The praise for the people helping in Tennessee is warranted, but the jerk crossed the line when he brought up Katrina.

Many things went wrong with Katrina. Some people have taken advantage of the tradegy, but let’s not paint everyone in New Orleans or Louisiana with the same broad brush. We often overlook the many cases of neighbor helping neighbor following Katrina. That’s the mistake Myers made. Instead of taking a cheap shot, I wonder what Myers ever did to help the victims of Katrina?

What a disgrace: In theory, you are correct. However, in the politically correct media society we live in, Myers can’t speak his mind. Case in point: And I will use a Katrina example

When the whole Kanye West/Taylor Swift award thing happened, did any major media ever reference Kanye West a few years earlier, when he said George Bush hates Black people on live TV????????????? Negative. If Chris Myers ever said Obama hates white people he’d be living with Bill Buckner somewhere in Idaho.

Getting back to Myers being a victom of PC MEDIA. He said nothing wrong. He spoke his mind, no more, no less.

I would greatly appreciate the people who did not suffer and lose their belongings, animals, houses, control over daily life. To re-adjust your narrow minds and realize 5 years later some of us are still waiting for insurance to pay what they owe! Don’t open you big mouth when you have no idea what you are speaking of, make judgments about people you don’t know, and things you will never experience. Because even though you are obviously a fool, i would never wish what happened to us during Katrina to happen to anyone else..even a fools like you!